> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Senior Software/Solutions Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/99e7475abc057601 Selector posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Santa Clara, CA, at $150,000–$185,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. This backend-heavy engineering role builds production ETL pipelines, data models, and integrations for Selector's platform, applying agentic AI workflows to complex infrastructure data. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Selector](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/selector) First seen Nov 3, 2026 · open on BambooHR as of Nov 8, 2026 **$150,000–$185,000** Santa Clara, CA Full-time This backend-heavy engineering role builds production ETL pipelines, data models, and integrations for Selector's platform, applying agentic AI workflows to complex infrastructure data. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F99e7475abc057601&placement=top) - [View posting at Selector](https://selectorsoftware.bamboohr.com/careers/207) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $150K–$185K Below the median Midpoint $168K · median $190K This job $150K to $185K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** Professional experience in a technical or engineering role - **7+ years** Professional experience in a technical or engineering role Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Santa Clara, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Santa Clara, CA - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [PhysicsX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/physicsx) ### [Machine Learning Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/57f18e0ae9d2cebe) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5mo ago $150,000–$190,000 [SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex) ### [Operations Engineer (Starshield Products)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/37db35ee2b38bbf5) Palo Alto, CA 2w ago $110,000–$175,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa082644713e92d5) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 5mo ago $180,000–$225,000 ## The job description from Selector Senior Software Engineer About Us Selector is building an operational intelligence platform for digital infrastructure. Using an AI/ML-based analytics approach, the platform provides actionable, multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. It helps operations teams meet their KPIs through seamless collaboration, a search-driven conversational experience, and automated data engineering pipelines. Our solutions are used by leading Telecom, Media, Health Care, Finance, Retail, Professional Sports, and Fortune 500 enterprise organizations around the world. Our novel approach and rapidly expanding footprint position us for continued growth as a category leader. Perks: discretionary PTO, health insurance, 401k, bonus potential, and more. About the Role This is a backend-heavy role for experienced engineers who want to solve complex data and systems problems — and see that work run in production, inside a customer's environment, not just in a sprint backlog. You'll build and maintain the ETL pipelines, data models, and integrations that power Selector's platform, applying agentic AI workflows to help infrastructure reason about itself at scale, while providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineers around you. You'll also work directly with customers to understand their data and environment, translating complex technical concepts into solutions that fit their specific, high-stakes infrastructure — so your backend work isn't abstract, it's solving a real problem for a real team. Responsibilities - Design, write, and maintain production grade Python/Go code for ETL pipelines, data models, and platform integrations. - Apply agentic AI workflows to automate data engineering, correlation, and root-cause analysis across complex infrastructure data. - Provide technical leadership on architecture and design decisions, setting the technical direction for backend systems and integrations. - Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, reviewing code and helping raise the technical bar across the team. - Build backend logic connecting Selector's platform to customer data sources, APIs, and existing tooling. - Work directly with customers to understand complex data structures, workflows, and analytics requirements, translating them into technical solutions. - Lead hands-on integration and deployment of Selector's platform to meet customer requirements, partnering with sales and customer teams. - Help ensure customers are enabled for use and basic self-serve extensions of Selector's capabilities. - Drive pre-sales activities and Proof of Concept (POC) builds, shaping technical strategy in collaboration with the sales team. - Document customer feedback and translate it into concrete product and engineering improvement proposals. You Will Thrive If You - Enjoy backend engineering — especially ETL, data pipelines, and complex system design — and want to see your work run in front of real customers. - Like applying AI/agentic workflows to solve genuinely hard, ambiguous problems, not just well-defined ones. - Naturally lead by example and enjoy mentoring other engineers, without needing a formal management title to do it. - Remain hands-on with testing and automation even as you take on more architectural and leadership responsibility. - Can evaluate whether a system output is truly correct, not just whether a test passed. - Balance quality, speed, and pragmatism when building under real customer constraints. - Build processes that improve quality without introducing unnecessary overhead. - Enjoy solving complex technical problems and working closely with both engineering and customer teams. Requirements - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 3–7 years of professional experience in a technical or engineering role, including experience owning systems end-to-end. - Strong coding skills in Python, with deep experience building ETL pipelines and working with complex data structures; exposure to Ansible or Go is a plus. - Demonstrated technical leadership experience — leading projects, mentoring engineers, or setting technical direction, with or without a formal title. - Solid working knowledge of public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. - Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Strong SQL skills for data extraction and analysis; familiarity with Jupyter notebooks is a plus. - Experience with or strong interest in agentic AI workflows and applying them to real-world engineering problems. - Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with experience working in a customer-facing environment. - Solid understanding of networking concepts (e.g., Data Center, WAN, DNS/DHCP). - A self-starter attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Compensation The salary for this role is $150,000 – $185,000. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience and job location, and may vary from the amount listed. [View posting at Selector](https://selectorsoftware.bamboohr.com/careers/207) ## About Selector Selector sells an AI-powered observability and network intelligence platform for detecting, diagnosing, and resolving issues across networks, infrastructure, and applications. 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